30 ENDOSPOREAE [BADHAMIA 



Sporangium-wall hyaline, without lime. 



(14) Diachaea. 



Tig. 22. — Diachaea leucopoda Rost. 



Two sporangia, one entire, the other deprived of 

 the spores and showing capillitium and columella. 

 Magnified 22 times. 



Fig. 22. 



Genus 2. — BADHAMIA Berkeley in Trans. Linn. Soc, 

 xxi. 153 (1852). Sporangia stalked, sessile, or forming 

 plasmodiocarps ; sporangium-wall single, with included lime- 

 granules ; capillitium consisting of a coarse network charged 

 with granules of lime (sometimes constricted here and there 

 into narrow hyaline threads) ; spores clustered or free, warted, 

 reticulated, or nearly smooth. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES OF BADHAMIA. 



A. Spores clustered : — 



a. Spores warted chiefly on one side — 

 a. Sporangia 1 to 1-5 mm. diam. — 



* Lime in sporangia and capillitium white — 



Plasmodium yellow ; sporangia grey, clustered 

 or scattered, sessile or with membranous 

 stalks. 1. B. capsulifera 



Sporangia grey, with firm stalks. 



2. B. papaveracea 



Plasmodium white ; sporangia white, heaped. 



3. B. populina 



** Lime in sporangia and capillitium yellow. 



7. B. nitens 



/3. Sporangia 0*3 to 0-5 mm. diam.; capillitium white or 

 apricot-coloured. 8. B. versicolor 



b. Spores equally warted all over. 4. B. utricularis 



B. Spores not clustered : — 



a. Sporangia yellow or orange. 9. B. decipiens 



b. Sporangia white or grey — 



Sporangia globose, sessile or on short membranous 

 stalks ; spores violet-brown ; Plasmodium orange. 



5. B. foliicola- 



